Fresh Batch #104: Tower of the Winds
Plus Diffusion between Denmark, Egypt, Britain and Everywhere Between
We live round the sea like ants and frogs around a pond. —Plato
The Tower of the Winds is an enigmatic structure that had multiple uses in antiquity.
There is a lot known about the tower, but there is just as much unknown about it. Specifically, the etymology of the names of the winds is mysterious, which I will attempt to give insight on. The most important classes of people that would’ve relied on these winds are farmers and mariners. According to Britannica, “Tower of the Winds, also called Horologium, Greek Horologion (Timepiece), [is a] building in Athens erected about 100–50 BC by Andronicus of Cyrrhus for measuring time. Initially described by the Roman architect Vitruvius (1st century BC), the Tower of the Winds was fancifully reconstructed in the 16th-century editions of his work by Cesare Cesariano and Giovanni Rusconi.”
According to George E. Koronaios, “The relief panels on the frieze of the Tower of the Winds (Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes) in the Roman Agora of Athens. In this panel the wind god Zephyrus (West wind).”
According to authors cited on Wiki, Zephyrus, along with his brother Boreas, is one of the most prominent of the Anemoi; they are frequently mentioned together by poets, and along with a third brother, Notus (the south wind) they were seen as the three useful and favourable winds (the east wind, Eurus, seen as bad omen). They are the three wind gods mentioned by Hesiod, as ancient Greeks avoided talking about Eurus.
It seems easterly winds brought conditions that killed crops, and perhaps made navigating difficult. From His Last Bow (1917), “There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.”
According to Wiki, the Authorized King James Version of the English Old Testament makes some seventeen references to the east wind. In Chapter 41 of Genesis, the Pharaoh’s dream, which is interpreted by Joseph, describes seven years of grain blasted by the east wind. In Chapters 10 and 14 of Exodus, Moses summons the east wind to bring the locusts that plague Egypt and to part the Red Sea so that the Children of Israel can escape Pharaoh’s armies. Several other references exist, most associating the east wind with destruction. Often, this is destruction of the wicked by God.
In England it seems to be associated with bitter winds but in the Mediterranean its associated with arid and hot wind, both of which are detrimental for crops.
For the Romans, Eurus was identified with the god Vulturnus, meaning from Vultur, a mountain in Apulia), closely associated with dry and warm weather. He was also called Africanus occasionally, due to the dry type of east wind the ancients knew.
According to Sammes Africa, or Aphrica, signifies Land of Corn, or Ears, in the Phoenician dialect, so called for its plenty of corn and grains. Egypt was the granary of the world as far as its region was concerned. Only two places in the ancient world were known for making drink out of barley: Britain and Egypt. Both locations were considered granaries of the world. Britain was called the Seat of Queen Ceres.
According to the article Archaeologists Find Earliest Known Beer Mega-factory, in Egypt (2021), “Facilities to make beer go back over 13,000 years, but nothing the size of this facility—built by a necropolis at Abydos—had been found before. A beer factory that may go back more than 5,000 years has been found in Egypt at the ancient city of Abydos, located near the Nile about 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Cairo.
“The discovery was announced by Egyptian authorities on Saturday. The factory apparently dates to the reign of King Narmer, who is famed for unifying ancient Egypt at the beginning of the First Dynastic Period (3150 B.C.E- 2613 B.C.E.), said Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. American and Egyptian archaeologists found eight enormous production units, each one 20 meters (about 65 feet) long and 2.5 meters wide. The units contained about 40 pottery basins in two rows, which had been used to heat a mixture of grain and water to produce beer, Waziri said. The Egyptian authorities noted that British archaeologists had postulated the existence of the factory over a century ago, but it couldn’t be found.”
According to Wiki, Boreas (Βορέας, Boréas; also Βορρᾶς, Borrhâs) is the Greek god of the cold north wind, storms and winter. Although he was normally taken as the north wind, the Roman writers Aulus Gellius and Pliny the Elder both took Boreas as a northeast wind, equivalent to the Roman god Aquilo or Septentrio, similar to Nor'easter winter storms. Boreas is depicted as being very strong, with a violent temper to match. He was frequently shown as a winged old man or sometimes as a young man with shaggy hair and beard, holding a conch shell and wearing a billowing cloak. Boreas's most known myth is his abduction of the Athenian princess Oreithyia.
This north (and slightly east) wind was associated with winter. Virgil (whose name indicates he was Etrusco-Phoenician) wrote, “Now had the sun rolled through the year's full circle, and the waves were rough with icy winter's northern gales.”
The abduction and rape of Oreithyia is the same mechanism as the rape of Persephone or the abduction of Helen, which, even if we had no other details, confirms the reckoning of winter because Virgo rules the night skies in winter after the 25th of December (from midnight to dawn).
According to Wiki, the Greek noun notos (νότος) refers both to the south cardinal direction and the south wind that blows from it. Its ultimate etymology remains unknown, although a pre-Greek origin seems to be the most likely origin. The ancient Greeks distinguished the three types of wind blowing from the south; the first was notos (the one Notus mostly represents) which blew from various directions in winter and was seen as the rain-bringer that obscured visibility, the second was leukonotos (white notus) which was milder and cleared up the sky, and the third was the hot bringer of dust, identified with sirocco. The Siroccos are significant in Italy, even allegorized in Acts 2:1-4, occurring when the sun entered Gemini.
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
If the etymology of notos is unknown, yet conceded to come from a pre-Greek origin, who would be the maritime empire that uses the winds, thus having the highest necessity of allegorizing them for their sailors to remember, and whose non-Indo-European language is the least known about? The Etrusco-Phoenicians.
Though it is anecdotal, if the word were of Greek origin, notos (NTS) might be soter (savior; STR) in reverse on account of the bones of the word being the same (NTS, which would be STN, and STR) since R and N interchange in the similar system of Hebrew, with BR (bar) and BN (ben) both meaning son.
According to Wiki, Apeliotes (or Apheliotes; the name means from the (rising) sun) is the Greek deity of the southeast wind. As this wind was thought to cause a refreshing rain particularly beneficial to farmers, he is often depicted wearing high boots and carrying fruit, draped in a light cloth concealing some flowers or grain.
Kaikias (or Caecius) is the Greek deity of the northeast wind. He is shown on the monument as a bearded man with a shield full of hailstones.
Lips is the Greek deity of the southwest wind, often depicted holding the stern of a ship. His Roman equivalent was Africus, due to the Roman province Africa being to the southwest of Italy.
Skiron was the name used in Athens for the wind which blew from the Scironian rocks (a geographical feature near Kineta to the west of Athens). His name is related to Skirophorion, the last of the three months of spring in the Attic calendar. He is depicted as a bearded man tilting a cauldron, representing the onset of winter.
According to Carole Raddato, “The holes were used for mounting the hydraulic mechanism which was installed inside the clocktower. The cuttings were intended for water supply conduits.”
The lack of etymological explanation for Greek words, or the origins of their system, evidences signs of history being formulated by people with an oriental disposition, or blinded by their faith in a belief of the oriental influence foisted upon them by the religious institutions. Even the Greek name of the British Isles was a Celtic word that the Greeks merely slapped a Greek termination onto.
Higgins wrote, “There can be no doubt that the British isles were known to the ancient Phœnicians and Greeks, as Herodotus called them Cassiterides or the countries of tin; and it was chiefly on account of the abundance of this, at that time scarce metal, that they were an object of attention. This word is the Celtic Casse-tair, pronounced Cassiter, to which the Greeks added their peculiar termination os, Casse-tair signifies the vulgar, or base sheet or bar, to distinguish it from silver, which is called Airgad—i.e. the precious sheet or bar.” (Toland, Hud., p. 341.)
The Phoenician name for Britain was two-fold. The first was Bratanac, meaning a country of Tin. Even Albion was from the Phoenician Alpin (a high mountain) and Alben (white), because of Britain’s high rocks on the western coasts, where the Phoenicians first landed, but also from the whiteness of its shores.
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